Section Navigation
National Competitive Grants Program
Breadcrumb Navigation
ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science
Funding: $9m for five years commencing 2005
Centre Director: Prof KA Nugent
Administering Institution: The University of Melbourne
Collaborating or Contributing Organisations:
La Trobe University
Swinburne University of Technology
Monash University
CSIRO - Health Sciences and Nutrition
CSIRO - Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology
Australian Synchrotron Research Program
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
SPring8, Riken
National University of Singapore
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Advanced Photon Source
University of California, Los Angeles
Victorian Department of Innovation,
Industry and Regional Development
X-ray sources are becoming ever brighter, and x-ray lasers will be available in the next ten years. These sources will open up whole new areas of investigation such as the structural determination of proteins not amenable to conventional methods. The ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science will bring physicists, chemists and biologists together to develop fundamentally new approaches to probing biological structures and processes. It combines world-class expertise in imaging, structural biology, laser science and molecular theory. The project will develop novel high-resolution imaging and probing using the Australian Synchrotron, and ultimately x-ray lasers. An overarching scientific aim of the centre is the determination of the structure of membrane proteins.
For further information about the Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science visit their website.
